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I put a tracker in my Disco (It did more than that as I could also trigger the fuel burning heater to warm the car before getting in it) and it was very useful for tracking my business miles. But my current car does similar as standard so haven't bothered. As does an app on my phone which I can swipe left and right for personal and business mileage. For £40 its probably not a bad option for piece of mind and if it does get nicked you can hopefully find it quicker!

Actually as I understand it, they shouldn’t do that. But then I ain’t by any means close to being an expert.

Oh and I have to say I'm not a great fan of batteries either - not convinced the production and mining of all the stuff needed is ethical or safe. let alone environmental cost.

Yes there is. Current demand as I speak in the UK is 42GW G. B. National Grid status (templar.co.uk) There is at least 10GW available at the moment through gas turbines and Nuclear - wind is providing nearly 25% of the demand at the moment. No it really isn't. Two main ways of getting it. Lots of steam or lots of electricity. You simply can't break the laws of physics. At best its 50% efficient. With no real idea of how to improve it. The real solution is nuclear. Small nuclear reactors in our cars. Little suns. But a long long way off yet.

Blimey - my old Disco would do that on a good day - I expect at least 600 from a tank of diesel! I drove from Folkstone to south of Munich in 2019 on a single tank of juice! Realistically electric has to be able to charge to 80% in about 30minutes and have a range of about 200/300 miles to be viable for me. Nothing I can think of does that, that is affordable and is big enough to carry all the crap I carry sometimes.

In my youth a lady I worked with had a Sunbeam Tiger - the 4.7l one - went in it the once - was fabulous - and she could drive too! But not seen her in nearly 30years - last I heard she was going for an all steel bottom end.

Something good came out of it at least!

This is an interesting site - also gives a table of head combinations. Triumph Spitfire Performance Enhancements (auskellian.com)

Probably why most of the gears in a flour mill are wooden?

You don't have to fill the boot you know

I know Bristol Transmissions (Guess where!) do rebuild old and modern boxes (Auto and manual) and has a good reputation at least for modern ones - but is a good way from you.

If that's the place in Bromsgrove, then they did mine and I was pleased with it.

Well, he ain't going to now! If you are lucky you might meet him again and give him a poke back! Sorry to hear your brother died though - never good.

I walked into our previous garage door which was not as far up as I thought. Had a massive slice in my head which bleed like a stuck pig - and being on top and having hair could do nothing with it. Hurt like hell too. 😂

Many years ago when I was first doing up the house, (So about 28years ago) I was in the garage and was on some steps hammering a nail into a beam - 6" one - and the hammer slipped off the head onto my thumb - to be fair the hammer wasn't the best - bit rounded on the head - and I was hitting it hard cos the beam was solid. Well I got into the kitchen and put it under some water and then felt a bit funny. So sat on the bottom of the stairs. Next thing I was upside down in a heap - I'd fainted and rolled forward off the step onto the floor. Was only out for a second or so! Quite funny looking back!

Friend of mine had a Marina - was at a scrap yard getting some bits - and he left his keys in the boot and then shut it (He had a habit of putting the keys in the boot!) and it locked (Cos that was the design!) - but the first key he tried on the bunch that the guys in the yard gave him opened it again!

I took them off my Landrover - too much of a risk to get them off when up to the axles in mud! And as said, if they want the wheels, they will have them. As it happens it wasn't a problem for me - but I had pretty standard wheels, though the tyres weren't (I had a total of 15 wheels and tyres for a good while - 5 normal road wheels/tyres, 4 winter wheels/tyres, 6 off road wheels/tyres - off road the one spare went on the roof!

I think the project binky mini has been painted old English white. Well all bar the roof. does look good.

Yeah I would think so - he has been retired for a good while - and as all technical stuff, like woodwork, metalwork and TD is all computerised - or seems to be - then yes must be many a year - 20 I would think

One of my dads friends (both school teachers ) had his schools workshops burn down. - was arson by a disgruntled ex pupil - he got called out by the fire brigade. On arrival he asked if they had got the gas bottles out - they hadnt - but went in to pull them out. They sat in water for several days cooling down apparently. Another result of the fire - was the brass locks in some of the doors melted as did the aluminium windows. one positive result was that he designed the replacement exactly how he wanted it 😂

Yeah, but he warned me the day before............. Think it was mostly stupidity and being cocky. I did also jump off the roof of the old derelict pavilion - about 12' I'd guess and smacked my chin into my knee on landing.

Not explosions or anything of that nature, but when I was about 9 or 10 our house backed on to a large field. (Now a housing estate - another story) In said field was an oil drum which me and my mate spent a happy day standing on and rolling it around the field. Got in that night and my dad says, don’t fall off it and you could cut yourself and that will mean a trip to the hospital. Next day what did I do? Yes. Fall off it and cut my leg. Trip to the hospital and ended up with a tetanus jab and butterfly stitches. Which turned out to be a waste of time as they broke and now I have an inch long scar about 1/4” wide just north of my knee.

I have a lifter - bought it before I twigged I didn't need one - never been out of the box it arrived in. No idea what the shipping cost would be - but more than happy to see.

But I bought this one (Second hand I might add!) SS Sports Exhaust Systems - Twin Rear Silencer - Full Syst (rimmerbros.com)

I must have been lucky - I don't recall any issues with leakage!